Microsoft E-Learning Needs a Lesson in Security
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| Security is a top priority for most organizations these days, and certainly
| Microsoft proclaims that it's job number one in Redmond. Which is why one
| reader found it very strange that Microsoft would insist on using his credit
| card number as ID for an E-Learning account.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/10/microsoft_elear.html?source=rss
As Doug shows, Windows was never designed with security in mind. Never. It was
an 'addon'.
> From his Wikipedia plug:
>
> However, in a 356 paged document titled "Worldwide Regional Directors
> Meeting" dated February 1995 and on page 250 in a section titled "Internet
> Server" there is a clear and unambigous reference to NTServer as THE Internet
> platform. Below that is a reference to 10 of the 12 top Internet sites
> running on NTServer platforms. ..
>
> <img>, http://schestowitz.com/temp/research/backoffice.office.strategy.png ,
> page 250
> <img>, http://schestowitz.com/temp/research/internet.server.png , page 250
>
> <quote>
> * Demonstrate NTServer as THE Internet platform
>
> * NTserver as Internet platform whitepaper done
>
> * Analyst/lab press tour by 3/30/95
>
> * Intenet World show: mid-April
>
> * Momentum: demonstrate 10 of the top 12 Internet sites now running on
> NTServer platforms
>
> * External Beta of Internet Server : 7/1/95
> * RTM: before end of 1995
> <unquote>
Related:
Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology
Why Windows is a security nightmare.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html
The Structural Failures of Windows
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=15305
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